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GENETICS AND MOLECULAR RESEARCH
卷 15, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.4238/gmr15048930
关键词
Dry matter intake; Feed intake; Performance traits; Residual feed intake; Variance partitioning
资金
- Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) [2012/02039-9, 2013/26902-0, 2014/14121-7, 2013/20571-2, 2014/07566-2]
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) [473249/2013-8, 442345/2014-3]
Feed intake, feed efficiency, and weight gain are important economic traits of beef cattle in feedlots. In the present study, we investigated the physiological processes underlying such traits from the point of view of systems genetics. Firstly, using data from 1334 Nellore (Bos indicus) cattle and 943,577 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), a genome-wide association analysis was performed for dry matter intake, average daily weight gain, feed conversion ratio, and residual feed intake with a Bayesian Lasso procedure. Genes within 50-kb SNPs, most relevant for explaining the genomic variance, were annotated and the biological processes underlying the traits were inferred from Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) databases. Our results indicated several putative genomic regions associated with the target phenotypes and showed that almost all genomic variances were in the SNPs located in the intergenic and intronic regions. We further identified five main metabolic pathways related to ion transport, body composition, and feed intake control, which influenced the four phenotypes simultaneously. The systems genetics approach used in this study revealed novel pathways related to feed efficiency traits in beef cattle.
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